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The stock prices of Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger have each risen more than shares of Apple since 2009, driven by surging sales linked to fears of regulation.
The publisher of two small newspapers in Connecticut suddenly appeared in the newsroom of The Las Vegas Review-Journal, much to his newsrooms’ mystification.
Popular opinion in the kingdom appears to show a wave of approval for the death sentences being carried out, and accusations of hypocrisy at the way the events have been portrayed in the West.
Markets in the United States closed down by more than 2 percent after trading was halted in China for the second time this week.
Confrontations between reality-based movies and a growing pack of watchdogs have been turning the Academy Awards ritual into a brutal game of “gotcha.”
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 6, 2016, covering January 7, 2016.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Chris Brown
Pentatonix
Soundtrack
2016Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (born 1929)[†]
William Edwin Foster was the head men's basketball coach at Rutgers University, University of Utah, Duke University, University of South Carolina, and Northwestern University. He is best known for guiding Duke to the NCAA championship game in 1978, and that year he was named national Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Foster was inducted into the Rutgers Basketball Hall of Fame and was the first NCAA coach to guide four teams to 20-win seasons. Foster was a graduate of Elizabethtown College.
2016John Johnson, American basketball player (born 1947)[†]
John Howard Getty "J. J." Johnson was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
2016Kitty Kallen, American singer (born 1921)[†]
Katie "Kitty" Kallen was an American singer whose career spanned from the 1930s to the 1960s, including the Swing era of the Big Band years, the post-World War II pop scene, and the early years of rock 'n roll. Kallen performed with popular big band leaders of the 1940s, including Jimmy Dorsey and Harry James, before establishing a solo career.
2016Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (born 1938)[†]
Judith Ann Kaye was an American lawyer, jurist and the longtime Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, serving in that position from 1993 to 2008.
2016Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (born 1936)[†]
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir twice from November 2002 to November 2005 and from March 2015 until his death on January 7, 2016. He held various positions, including minister of Tourism in Rajiv Gandhi's cabinet and minister of Home Affairs in V. P. Singh's cabinet. Sayeed began his political career in the wing of the National Conference led by G. M. Sadiq, which later merged with the Indian National Congress. In 1987, he transitioned to the Janata Dal and subsequently founded the People's Democratic Party (PDP), a regional political party that remains influential in Jammu and Kashmir, currently led by his daughter, Mehbooba Mufti.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]